Most importantly you should have a great profile picture, people can associate your blog with.

If you look at Sue Anne's picture, it's hard not to remember which blog she owns.

Simply create an account with Gravatar and every time you leave a comment behind, your picture will be next to it (if it's a WordPress related website).

The fourth and probably most important tip is to reach out to other bloggers.

Connecting with bloggers from similar niches has the benefits mentioned above. But you can also learn a lot from the authors personally.

Additionally, you shouldn't just connect with similar authors you should connect with bloggers from all types of niches.

By doing so, you will learn various techniques and ways to monetize or optimize your blog.

The more blogs I visit regularly, the more traffic I seem to get after implementing suggestions and Ideas from these blogs.

Important Things You Should Know About

Keywords

Keywords are phrases or sentences you should use to write your posts. The better your keywords, the more likely you will end up getting organic readers.

SEO

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. A lot of people freak out by the thought of SEO, but I highly recommend to know the basics and install one of the WordPress plugins that help you optimize your posts.

Find Your Theme

When you start writing, it will take a few articles to find your inner blogger. When I started off, I was a bit of a financial advisor, researcher, dreamer etc.

It takes some time to see what responds well with your audience. Don't be discouraged too fast. Once you find your style stick to it.

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Very helpful post for a beginner such as myself, i hope i can take your tips and turn it into something useful. Now to study up on this SEO stuff (i made an attempt, but i think its poorly executed), as a geek and person who hangs out online alot I am embarrassed to admit how little I really know about blogging.